Novel card game



yJune 13, 1939. M GOLDMAN 2,162,428

NOVEL CARD GAME Filed Oct. 18, 1937 I Patented June 13, 1939 UNITEDSTATES IPATENT-- OFFICE 4 Claims.

and more particularly to a novel card game.`

It is an object of the present invention to provide a novel type ofycard game colorful in ap- I pearance and adapted to the amusement andenjoyment of both young. and old people, said game being characterizedin that neither numerical nor alphabetical symbols are used.Accordingly, it is possible for the game to be played 1o by young peoplewho have not yet acquired suillcient familiarity with reading toappreciate written symbols, or by persons of different ,nationality whodo not speak a common tongue.

It is also an object of the present invention to provide an amusing cardgame of a character such that powers of observation are stimulated.

The invention will be fully and comprehensively understood from aconsideration of the following detailed description when read in conzonection with the accompanying drawing which forms part of theapplication.`

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a top plan view of a suit of cards arranged in the winningformation.

Figure 2 is a top plan view of one of the end cards.

Figure 3 is a top plan view of one of the intermediate -cards; and

Figure 4 is a top plan view of the other end card.

In the preferred embodiment of the present invention the deck of cardsused comprises a plurality, say, for example, six essentially suits often cards each, each of these suits including one of each of the endcards, substantially as illustrated in Figures 2 and 4, along with eightintermediate cards, substantially as illustrated in Figure 1. It will benoted that upon each of the cards is included a design elementcomprising concentrically disposed. colored areas, for ex- 40 ample, aplurality of V-shaped areas are provided on the card illustrated in-Figure 2 which, beginning from the center,y are colored as follows:green, brown, red or pink, violet or purple,

yellow or gold, blue. On the intermediate card 145 iuustratediin Figure3, it w111 be noted that me hemicircular areas on the left portion ofthe card beginning at the center, are colored substantially as follows:red or pink, blue, brown, violet or purple, red or pink, green, andyellow or gold. The hemicircular'areas disposed at the right portion ofthe card, beginning at the centergare colored as follows: violet orpurple, red or pink, yellow or gold, green, red or pink, blue and brown.Referring now to the Figure 4, it

.ing these cards in improper sequence. .begnoted that in the absence ofthe direction- This invention relates to amusement devicesl will benoted that the hemicircular areas disposed on the left'portion of saidcard beginning at the center are colored as follows: yellow or gold, redor pink, blue, red or pink, green brown and violet or purple. Aplurality of direction ,5 indicating arrows, to be hereinafterdescribed, are also provided on the faces of the cards substantially asshown. It will be noted that the hemicircular colored areas disposedadjacent` the edges of `the cards are arranged in a manner :10 whereby,when the lcards are placed adjacent each other with the arrows pointingin the same direction, the hemicircular areas will be in alignmentthereby producing a different design consisting of a plurality ofdesigns comprisingcircles ,l5 of different colors when the proper cardsare placed together. It will be further noted that in each suit, thearrangement of colors in the hemicircular areas will agree on only twocards, that` is to say, when the arrows are pointing in the properdirection and the cards are positioned adjacent each other, it will befound that only one card will agree with the card arrangement on anothercard, for example, the card 5 in Figure 1 is provided with a particulararrangement of colors in the right portion of said card which will onlycorrespond to the arrangement of hemicircular colored yareas in the leftportion of card 6, 'but this particular arrangement of colored areaswill not b e found on any other card. Like- '30 wise, the arrangement ofhemicircular colored areas on the right portion of card 6 will bematched only by the hemicircular colored areas in the left portion ofcard 1. It 'will be noted that each of the cards is provided withindicating arrows or signals intended to convey to the mind of theplayer that the cards should be arranged so that the arrows point in onedirection only when the cards are properly aligned. It is among thepurposes of the direction-indicating o indicia to prevent a personholding two cards of the same colored design, as for instance, two cards1, taken from different suits, from arrang- It will indicating indiciait would be possible for the player' to position these cards adjacenteach other in improper sequence and complete a design without formationof a complete suit, whereas with direction-indicating indicia this isprecluded. Therefore, it will be observed that no two cards of a suitcan be in alignment unless placed in the position indicated in Fig. 1 byreference to characters 5, 6 and 7 and the remaining cards notspecifically referred to. 55

Further, it will be noted that in the cardillustratedinFigure2,thearrowsappe artobegin from a common origin and onthe card illustrated in Figure 4 the arrows appear to converge towardthe pot-o-gold or similar symbol representing a real or imaginary goal.

In playing the gameit is preferred to use in conjunction with the cardshereinbetore. described, a number of tokens or chips preferablyresembling gold pieces. Experience indicates that approximately threehundred of these chips are sufficient for use with a deck of cardscontaining six essentially complete suits. At the beginning of the gamethe total number oi' chips or gold pieces are divided into aliquotportions and disltributed to the players and thereafter l0 cards'v aredealt to each player from a shuilled deck. Each player than lays all hiscards on the table, face up, in view of the other players and attemptsin as far as possible to arrange the cards adjacent each other in amanner whereby the arrows all point in one general direction and thehemicircular colored areas correspond in color. In the event that theindividual players do not have the correct cards for proper sequence ofcolor continuity in order to complete their respective suits, theypurchase additional cards from the balanceof the deck remaining afterthe, first deal. For instance, each additional card can bepurchased byIone token or piece of gold. In the event that six players are playing,which case necessitates all the cards to be dealt out to the players-leaving no remainder for subsequent sale, experience indicates thateach player should be forced to discard those cards which he does notbelieve t into the suit which he is making or attempting to make. In thepreferred manner of playing the game, the individual players continuethis process until one player has completed his suit, whereupon saidplayer becomes entitled to the accumulation of tokens or gold pieceswhich have been gathered thru the `sale of cards from the pack. In theevent that a plurality of players simultaneously complete their suits,the collection of tokens is divided aliquotly. Whenever a playercompletes his suit, the cards of all players are gathered together,shuilled and again distributed to the players in substantially themanner hereinbefore described although the tokens or gold pieces are notagain gathered together and equally sub-divided. In this manner, thegame proceeds until one person has accumulated at least a preponderantpart of the tokens at which time he is acclaimed the winner. In theevent that a player wishes to withdraw from the game, the cards in hispossession are introduced into the pack and shuiiied and the tokenswhich he has won are placed in the pile accumulated thru the sale of/cards to the respective players.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the' art that a deck cancomprise substantially any number of essentially suits of cards orindeed the number of cards comprising a suit canbe increased in numberif preferred without substan tial departure from the spirit of thepresent invention. It will also be apparent to those skilled amuse inthe art that, although certain arrangements ot colored areas have beendescribed in conjunction with the illustrated embodiment of the presentinvention.` this combination oi' colors is purely for purposes ofillustration and is non-limitative. It is preferred, however. that thecolors of adjoining areas be substantially complementary and harmoniouswith each other thereby permit ting the continuity of proper colorsequence and the elimination of an unpleasant effect.

iined tothe exact showing of the drawing nor to the precise constructiondescribed and, therefore, such changes and modifications may be madetherein as do not affect the spirit oi' the invention nor exceed thescope thereof as ex- A pressed in .the appended claims.

Whatisclaimedasnewis:

1.Inapackoi'cardshavingatleastonesuit made up o! a number of said cardsand said suit provided with dinerent symbols constituting a completedesign apportioned over the c'ards o1' said suit, a pair of said cardsof said suit bisecting one of said symbols to apportion an identicallyappearing section thereof on each of said pair of cards for cooperationin denoting the'edge to edge relation of the pair of cards when form.-ing the complete design.

2. In a pack of cards having at least one suit made up of a plurality ofcards each provided with a different complete section of a designforming a part of the design for said suit when said cards are arrangedin a predetermined order and with an appreciable portion of the sectionof said design on one card beingof an identical replica of a likeportion of that design on the adjacent card when said cards are arrangedin said predetermined order.

3. In a pack of cards having at least one suit made up of a plurality ofcards' each provided with a dierent complete section of a designfashioned with colored paths terminating adjacent the side edges thereofand forming a part of the design for said suit when said cards arearranged in predetermined order and with an appreciable portion of thesection of said design on one card being substantially a duplicate of'alike portion oi that design on the adjacent card when said cards arearranged in said predetermined order.

4. In a pack of design forming cards, at least one suit adapted to bearranged in a predetermined order to provide a plurality of individuallycomplete designs, said individually complete designs comprisingcomplementary sectional designs on the cards, each complementarysectional -design comprising a plurality of patterns, and eachcomplementary sectional design being adapted to match one complementarysectional design on one only of the other cards to provide one of saidindividually complete designs when the cards are arranged in saidpredetermined order with a plurality of patterns of one sectional designlending continuity to the plurality of patterns of its complementarysectional design.

MOSES GOLDMAN.

. l0 It is to be understood that this improvement is capable of extendedapplication and is not con

